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by lou1306 6y ago
> Eastern Europe / the Balkans are pretty complex. They have been ruled by The first and second Bulgarian Empires, The Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Ottomans. Pretty much sums it up, but you forgot the Most Serene Repu
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by lou1306 6y ago
I guess it allows you to implement a JVM that runs on bare metal, or a host without timezone support.
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by lou1306 6y ago
I genuinely wonder what gave you this impression. Dijkstra made seminal contributions to at least three subfields of computer science: algorithms (his optimal shortest path algorithm), programming languages (ALGOL -with others, but still- a
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by lou1306 6y ago
s/market/factories
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by lou1306 6y ago
> I disagree with webinars being a necessary product for a Zoom competitor Sorry for the bluntness, but this is like saying "pivot tables are not a necessary product for an Excel competitor". If you don't provide webinars
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by lou1306 6y ago
Somewhat related: there is a Pandoc "writer" on GitHub that pretty prints most formats supported by Pandoc (including Markdown, of course). https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer I contri
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by lou1306 6y ago
First of all, I have to say that your work on the C/C++ grammars is amazing. My comment was mostly a reaction to this section of the blog post: > I could only find a single mirror where I could download [the archives c++grammar1.1.
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by lou1306 6y ago
This stuff seems pretty famous and worthy of being preserved, so why is that someone like @historicalcode on GitHub hasn't put it into a repository yet? Some licensing issues?
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by lou1306 6y ago
May be relevant to the discussion: SQLite is also compiled from a single, 220k LOC C file called "the amalgamation". https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
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by lou1306 6y ago
Moreover, click provides a lot of additional CLI-related stuff (printing with colors, asking for input, progress bars) with IMHO pretty reasonable default behaviour. And it's really well-documented!
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by lou1306 6y ago
The movie Gravity also starts with a space debris-related catastrophe. At least the concept is gaining traction in popular culture.
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by lou1306 6y ago
> but other things got complicated there, mostly running other processes, capturing their exit status, pipe-ing their output Note that Python's subprocess module [0] has received many updates since v3.5, and now I find it relatively
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by lou1306 6y ago
We already had a working point-to-point neutrino beam [0]. But I'm not a physicist and I don't really know if you could modulate it in any meaningful way. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_Neutrinos_to_Gr
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by lou1306 6y ago
They also made a pretty big push toward formal verification of drivers, which were often the culprit for insecure/unstable machines. Their SLAM model checker [0] was avant-garde (in industry terms, at least). [0]: https://e
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by lou1306 6y ago
There was a point in having him: he fathered a replicant-born child (while possibly being a replicant himself), aka the central theme of the movie. Execution could have been better, though. And at least the Vegas section had great cinematog
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by lou1306 6y ago
Also, ocrmypdf [0] is a great Tesseract-based tool which makes it easy to add ocr layers to raster pdfs. Plus, it takes care of optimizing the resulting file (compression, etc). I used it on several old academic papers and have been pleased
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by lou1306 6y ago
In my opinion the "killer feature" of OOP at scale, more than hierarchy, it's compartmentalization of code. Class hierarchies tend to have issues at scale, but OOP makes people agree on "where should we put this block of
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by lou1306 6y ago
"Fragile" would be the closest translation of "breakable". It has the same meaning as in English.
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by lou1306 6y ago
Similarly infuriating fact: in Italian, "infranto" means broken, but "infrangibile" means "unbreakable" (as in glass).
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by lou1306 6y ago
I'm pretty sure you could build a Turing machine with textdb as tape and a Twitter bot as the tape head.
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by lou1306 6y ago
I don't think so. IE6 was bundled with Windows, a software that came bundled with nearly every retail PC and that was basically essential for said PC to be used (in the eyes of the layman, at least). Teams is bundled with Office, which
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by lou1306 6y ago
Of course his soundtrack work is immortal. However, he also composed some iconic Italian pop songs! His most famous one is probably Mina's "Se Telefonando". [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fpSiE953w
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by lou1306 6y ago
Windows Phone had amazing human interface guidelines for hand-held touch devices. I still believe that Live Tiles are unmatched as a home screen pattern. > The platform provides a rigid design-language, and the individual applications
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by lou1306 6y ago
Da Vinci's experiments with "frescoes" were tragicomical themselves. The guy really tried his darnedest to make frescoes as lifelike as oil paintings. Results: most of his fresco works are either lost or need a lot of restora
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by lou1306 6y ago
It is worth noticing that this paper presents a slightly more advanced protocol than 2PC. Relevant quote (page 21): > The major difference is that, in our scheme, the uncommitted state of the token prevents other atomic actions from read
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by lou1306 6y ago
I also use Pocket a lot. Alas, I do wish that they had Kindle integration... As of now I use crofflr [1], which mostly works but is unfortunately no longer updated. [1]: https://www.crofflr.com/
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by lou1306 6y ago
Maybe, but Apple's choices (described by other replies ITT) only made it worse. Deprecating OpenGL and dropping 32-bit compatibility, for instance.
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by lou1306 6y ago
Deepfakes of dead celebrities at almost zero cost? Surely the estates of said celebrities have (or will lobby to obtain) the rights to their likenesses?
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by lou1306 6y ago
App notarization works by hashing binaries and sending said hashes to Apple. Here you go: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...
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by lou1306 6y ago
This is especially true of "code generators" or "source-to-source" transformation tools. I did write one of each recently, and often had to look up the compiler literature to go forward.

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